The device has an RS232 serial port on the front which is the main I/O via which BIOS communicates to the user. My intention was to solder my own null-modem cable, but because the DB9 connectors I tried to buy were actually mislabeled DB15s, I ended up just buying one from Island Computers.

It was a little tricky to get Linux running, but following a few links about updating the BIOS turned out be the key. I installed FreeDOS onto my CF card using freedos3.zip, mounted the FAT partition in OS X and copied in the new BIOS files. Then it was a simple matter of booting the device up. There’s something about the way the CF card is partitioned that is particular, so I left the FAT partition intact and added a Linux partition to fill the remainder of the space. I also decided to use LILO rather than GrUB which seems to have worked. I’m running Voyage Linux 0.61 and am currently trying to get the wireless card to initialize properly.